Group Psychology

This new edition of Using Groups to Help People has been written with the interests, needs, and concerns of group therapists and group workers in mind. It is designed to help practitioners to plan and conduct therapeutic groups of diverse kinds, and it presents frameworks to assist practitioners to understand and judge how to respond to the unique situations which arise during group sessions.It deals with such issues as:* Choosing groups formats and structures to match the needs and capabilities if different populations of people* Observing and listening to groups, and making sense of what one sees and hears.* Problem situations, and how they can be turned into opportunities why, how and when to intervene in a group.* Events which can occur in therapeutic groups which cannot occur in individual psychotherapy, and implications for the therapist uses and misuses of theory when planning and conducting groups* Planning and conducting research on one's own groups and those of colleagues.This practical, up-to-date, and readable book will prove valuable to all those involved in making use of small face-to-face groups to benefit their members.It takes into account new developments in the field during the past fifteen years, including new writing and the author's further experiences and thinking during this time.

In a book for front-line clinicians, Irvin Yalom turns to the inpatient psychiatric setting and offers new ways of conceptualizing the techniques of group therapy for use on acute wards. While some group therapy occurs in all psychiatric hospitals, it is rarely handled systematically and is not properly supported by the psychiatric leadership. Arguing from his own research results and from his years of experience, Yalom makes a strong case for the importance and efficacy of group therapy on all acute wards. "An eminently practical guide to what works".--Marc Hertzman, Dir., George Washington Univ. Medical Center. Notes, Appendix and Index.

Professor Brown provides a resource for clinicians, instructors, and students interested in promoting group process and progress, increasing group members' self-awareness and self-understanding, and strategies for resolving individual and group difficult behaviors. It presents art, imagery, dreams, guided writing, fairy tales, and movement exercises together with theory and literature reviews underlying each.

This text presents the basic knowledge required to set up and work with a group. It looks at how to plan and lead a group successfully and how to intervene skillfully.

Group analysis is a method pioneered by Foulkes in order to study the behaviour of individuals in the social context of a group. Apart from its practical aspects, group analysis has features of specific value and is the method of choice for the treatment of many problems.

A highly readable discussion of an integrative approach to adolescent group therapy, this book advocates a focus on health in each group member. Drawing from their extensive clinical and teaching experience, Holmes and his associates advocate social competency development and attention to the co-therapy relationship. They offer recommendations for supervising trainee therapists and for applying their model to various settings. Valuable to students, teachers, and professionals in the fields of psychology, counseling, vocational rehabilitation, sociology, nursing and education.

Brings together a collection of new and original contributions to an understanding of primitive object relations and critical emotional states which present the maximum challenge to the group psychotherapist.

The second edition of Psychoeducational Groups provides an overview of instructional theories together with guidelines for conducting psychoeducational groups. Two new chapters cover group planning and themed sessions with special populations.

Speigel (psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine) was the first to demonstrate that group support for cancer patients results in significantly enhanced survival times and in measurably greater quality of life -- less anxiety, less depression, and half as much pain. In this book he and Classen (psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Stanford University) articular the principles of conducting supportive-expressive group treatment with the medically ill. They describe the rationale and practical tools for constructing and facilitating therapy groups. They also address priorities for living and fears of dying, strategies for symptom-control, and other matters which arise in support groups.